Jessie Greengrass

1982–

Jessie Greengrass is a British writer, born in 1982, who spent her childhood in London and Devon and studied philosophy in Cambridge and London. Her first book, the story collection An Account of the Decline of the Great Auk, According to One Who Saw It (2015), won the Edge Hill Short Story Prize and a Somerset Maugham Award. Her debut novel, Sight (2018), was shortlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction. The High House (2021), a novel about a makeshift family sheltering from climate catastrophe, was shortlisted for the Costa Novel Award and the Orwell Prize for Political Fiction. She lives in Berwick-upon-Tweed with her partner and children.

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